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Air pollution significantly reduces pollination by confusing butterflies and bees

Envirotec Magazine

Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, new research seems to show. The theory is that the pollutants react with and change the scents of flowers, making them harder to find.

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Take precautions on ozone alert days

Greenability Magazine

Today, Kansas City will experience its first ozone alert day of the season. Here’s what you need to know to protect your health and help reduce pollution. When ozone pollution is high, the air is unhealthy. Ozone pollution can cause wheezing, coughing and difficulty breathing. or after 7 p.m.

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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

Envirotec Magazine

Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre based on analysis in Richardson et al 2023, CC BY-ND. We’ve done it already in the 1990s, when international cooperation quickly phased out ozone-depleting chemicals and stopped the dangerous ozone hole from getting ever-bigger. We are still in the green for ozone-depleting chemicals.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health. This knowledge is essential, though, to making daily health decisions and strengthening community climate resilience.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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To Meet Sustainability Goals, Food Companies Need To Slash Methane

EDF + Business

Katie Anderson, Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forests. For companies that produce, process or sell beef, pork and/or dairy, there’s an often overlooked, invisible source of climate pollution lurking in the supply chain: methane. Livestock pollution disproportionally impacts communities.

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How Much Work is Needed to Make Recycling Economically Sustainable?

Green Living Guy

Environmental issues like acid rain, global warming, ozone layer depletion, climate change, and water pollution have raised major concerns for several nations, organizations, and groups. In recent years, the exploitation and degradation of our environment have risen at an alarming rate.